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1999-05-05

Terror, bombs and White Wolves

These days, the newsmedia report on bombings in London. This takes place right after the madness in Littleton, when the so-called Trenchcoat Mafiawith the help of home-made bombs and firearms executed 15 schoolmates. In Denver, Littleton, there has been a vampire LARP, which is based on theAmerican game company White Wolf's gaming concept, which includes various hints on murder, assassination and "things that go boom in the night".

In London there are bombs exploding - aimed at immigrants and homosexuals - by people who claim to belong to The White Wolves, which in turn is said tobe a splinter group of the Nazi organization Combat 18. Vampire- and werewolf LARP:ing is popular in London, too. Here in Sweden, we havevampires and werewolves in accordance with White Wolf's concept. By chance does the name of the company - which supplies all the information one mightwant on how to kill and assassinate and suggestions on scenarios for acts of terror for role-players and LARP:ers - coincide with the Nazi splintergroup White Wolves.

By chance, role-players have for a long time carefully studied the theory on how to execute or injure people with e.g. the type of bombs used inLondon:

"It's desirable to create shrapnel if one is aiming for injuring people. Shrapnel is very easy to create but there is relatively few terrorist bombsthat has that function. The easiest way to do this is to place small pieces of metal, nails, pellets or suchlike on the surface of the bomb." (thegaming magazine Gryning 2/93/excerpt form the book "De övergivnas armé") By chance, role-players, LARP:ers and terrorists live in the same contextwith combat, terror and white wolves. Where do they get everything from?